ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

The valid name for Polybothrus mesopotamius Verhoeff,1944 is Eupolybothrus litoralis (L. Koch, 1867)

Polybothrus mesopotamius Verhoeff,1944

Original description: Verhoeff K.W. (1945). Asya hayvanlari ve zoogeografiyasi hakkinda. Asiatische Beiträge. VIII. - Istambul Universitesi Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, 9B: 307-347, see p. 319.

Order: Lithobiomorpha

Family: Lithobiidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Polybothrus Latzel, 1880

Type locality: Turkey: Mardin

Synonymy: Zapparoli M. (1995). Chilopodi di Turchia. V. Tassonomia, corologia e note ecologiche su Eupolybothrus (Eupolybothrus) litoralis (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha) - Fragmenta Entomologica , 27: 1-14, see p. 10.